Meanings
plural letters of countermart
- alternativeletterAlternative form of letter of countermarque.
Letters of countermart were similar commissions by which reprisals on an enemy's merchant shipping were given state sanction.
1966, Frederick Neville Hopkins, Business and Law for the Shipmaster, page 516
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